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Sending for proof barrels containing explosive substances to be an offence liable to life imprisonment. 123. If any person knowingly send for proof at the Proof House or any Branch Proof House of either of the Two Companies any barrel containing any explosive substance, or any other matter calculated by explosion or otherwise to occasion injury to any peson handling or having to do with the barrel for the purposes of proof or otherwise, every person so sending the barrel containing the explosive substance or other matter, and every person putting into the barrel before or when it is so sent the explosive substance or other matter, and every person causing, procuring, or knowingly permitting any such offence or an attempt at any such offence, or in any way aiding or abetting therein respectively, or knowing that any such offence or attempt has been or is about to be committed or attempted to be committed, and not using his best endeavours to give warning thereof to some officer employed at the Proof House or Branch Proof House to which the barrel is so sent or attempted to be sent, shall be [guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life].
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